December 4, 2025
By Tanya Tono, In practice, U.S. port inspections often treat drug seizures as isolated cargo incidents, not opportunities to investigate the ship or its owners. For example, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in San Juan...
November 18, 2025
By Tanya Tono The Dark Side of Open Registries In the global shipping industry, “flags of convenience” (FoC) refer to the practice of registering a vessel in a country other than where its owners are based. These...
August 22, 2025
By Catalina Samaniego The Central American nation of Belize has become a bellwether about beneficial ownership transparency. However, limited attention has been given to the gaming and casino sector within this context. While the country has made...
By Leon Dawson, June 12, 2025
The Latin American and Caribbean countries that experience high levels of corruption can be ideal for laundering criminal proceeds. In a general manner, corruption erodes governance and institutions enabling weak oversight mechanisms for preventing and countering financial...
By Luisa Acosta, Claudia Marcela Hernández, June 4, 2025
El financiamiento del terrorismo (FT) es un delito que está asociado con los fondos y/o bienes que sostienen a los terroristas o grupos de terroristas para poder operar. Este financiamiento puede ser utilizado para comprar armamento, costear...
By Tanner Clegg, May 2, 2025
Amid the bedlam ignited by Watergate and national intelligence agencies’ abuses of power in the 1970s, Idaho Senator Frank Church mounted a Senate investigation into glaring corruption in the world of international business. This investigation, conducted by...
By Leon Dawson, March 10, 2025
In recent years, beneficial ownership (BO) transparency has become a global priority in fighting against money laundering (ML), tax evasion, and illicit financial flows. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) in the Caribbean—Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Bermuda—have all...
By Leon Dawson, February 10, 2025
Belize has made commendable strides in strengthening its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) framework, as reflected in the Fourth Round Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) of Belize (CFATF, 2025). Compared to its Third Round MER (2011),...
